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LL: So, you are quite the entrepreneur! Would you like to talk about your career in radio?

VS: I started one of the first streaming radio networks AllRadio.com in 1998 and then moved on to
launch ChoiceRadio.com in 1999. I raised some angel capital for the company but after the dot com
bubble burst in the new millennium, I was forced to sell ChoiceRadio.

In 2003, I had the opportunity to start GotRadio.com in a joint effort with a college in Seattle that
had extra bandwidth to spare and wanted to try their hand in internet radio. I split from them in
2004 and have been streaming at GotRadio ever since. I personally program the Bit O Blues
Channel and the New Age based channels, and have other music programmers for the rest of the
network. I absolutely love what I do and am very blessed to have
music in my life 24/7.

LL: What can we all look forward to coming up for you?

VS: Oh, more albums of course. However, I hope I’m wrong but
I’m sad to say that “Healing Kind of Blues” might be the last
physical CD we release. People are just not purchasing CDs
anymore. I really take the art of sequencing an album to heart.

With “Healing Kind of Blues” I wanted to take the listener on a
musical journey (remember the Moody Blues?) as well as having
stand-alone tracks that people could add to their Spotify playlists.
But I do hope that the art of producing and enjoying entire albums continues.

I am also dying to come and perform in the UK and Europe. I think a sort of “working/playing
vacation” in the UK would be absolutely marvellous. Being half British, I have relatives in England
that I’d love to meet. I’m trying to figure out how I can make that dream a reality. So far, the
acceptance of my music has been beyond my dreams, and I can’t thank blues radio enough for their

support!

~ Lawrence Lebo
Lawrence Lebo is an award winning, critically acclaimed Blues recording artist living in Los Angeles, CA,
USA. She can be found on the web at www.lawrencelebo.com